Carri Walters

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Carri Walters is the Digital Marketing Coordinator here at WHNT News 19. Carri joined the WHNT News 19 team in June of 2012. She has played a variety of roles at the station. She started off working in the studio, but quickly followed her passion of writing into the newsroom where she worked as a producer. She's now turned her focus to marketing, and is currently a happy member of our Sales team.

Carri is a graduate of Northern Illinois University, where she double majored in Communication and Journalism, with an emphasis in Media Studies.

She grew up in West Chicago, IL. She then lived in Boston, MA for a couple years after college before moving to the Tennessee Valley with her husband.

Carri is excited to be a part of the WHNT News 19 team and loves that she learns something new each time she comes in to work.

Recent Articles

A young boy in Florida turned in his mother for cooking and using methamphetamine. The 7-year-old and his 26-year-old mother were living in Edgewater, Florida with her boyfriend’s brother. The man said he thinks of the boy as a nephew. He said the boy told him for days that his mom was cooking “something bad.” He said it took the boy a while before he worked up the courage to show him what it was. When the boy finally showed […]

Alabama State Troopers identify the woman killed in a wreck in Limestone County as 64-year-old Judith Bracewell of Fayetteville, Tennessee. The wreck happened just before 6:30p.m. Wednesday. Troopers say Bracewell was driving on McKee Road, when she ran he stop sign at the intersection of Highway 251. A van traveling north on Highway 251 T-boned her car. Bracewell was pronounced dead at the scene. Troopers say she was wearing her seatbelt. The other people involved in the wreck are not […]

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – Court testimony Wednesday revealed former volunteer Guntersville High School girls soccer coach David Barrow is accused of using a woman to ask girls on the Grissom High School swim team if they were interested in modeling and making extra money, according to our news partners at AL.com and The Huntsville Times. That incident took place at a Huntsville YMCA, according to testimony in the preliminary hearing of Kristian Danette Griffin in Madison County District Court. Griffin is charged with three […]

DECATUR, Ala. (WHNT) – Police have charged a man with second-degree assault following a stabbing late Monday night in Decatur. Officers responded to the Busy Bee Supermarket on 19th Avenue in southeast Decatur. They found a man with multiple stab wounds. Paramedics transported the victim, Jaycen Irven, to Huntsville Hospital. He was listed in stable condition on Tuesday morning. Police say Robert Lee White is charged with second-degree assault. He is being held in the Decatur City Jail. Police say they […]

MADISON COUNTY, Ala. (WHNT) — Three teenagers are recovering after a single vehicle wreck. It happened at about 9:25 Thursday night in Owens Crossroads. A car carrying four teenagers wrecked and rolled over on Wilson Mann Road, near Highway 431. State Troopers confirm on person was thrown from the vehicle. Two people were able to get out of the car, but another person was trapped inside for a short period of time. HEMSI took three of the young men to […]

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) — Huntsville Police are investigating an overnight stabbing. Authorities say 38-year-old Maurice Rice was stabbed in his upper right arm on Autumn Wood Drive around 12:30 Thursday morning. He was taken to Huntsville Hospital with non-life threatening injuries. Officers indicate Rice was uncooperative with investigators. The case is under investigation.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) — Huntsville Police responded to a shooting on Academy Drive, just south of Highway 72, Wednesday night. It happened at about 10:15 p.m. When officers arrived on the scene, they say they found a juvenile with a gunshot wound to the foot. He was taken to Huntsville Hospital with minor injuries. Police brought a canine that tracked the shooter south and into a neighborhood before the scent went cold. Police do not believe this shooting is connected […]

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) — Huntsville Police are looking for the person they believe shot a man in the back Wednesday night. It happened on the 3200 block of Uvalde Lane around 10:15 p.m. Police found 42-year-old Lashawn Slaughter shot in the back. Police say Slaughter told them he just pulled up to a friend’s house and got out of the car when someone struck him with a pipe and then shot him. HEMSI paramedics rushed Slaughter to Huntsville Hospital with […]

FLORENCE, Ala. (WHNT) – Florence Police continue to check leads in an armed robbery that happened in the Hobby Lobby parking lot last night on Florence Boulevard. According to investigators, the robbery happened just after 7:30 p.m. as a woman was walking to her car. Police say the man was wearing a dark hoodie and grabbed the woman’s purse and pushed a gun into her back. Police believe the man left in a dark-colored car, possibly maroon. The vehicle didn’t […]

Star Market’s Bailey Cove location in Huntsville is in the middle of a legal battle between store managers and property owners. Now an employee says rumors are going around that the Star location is closing for good. David Wood spoke to the employee to clear up some confusion. Pardon our progress. In addition to highly publicized legal squabblings, sights like this – construction and empty shelves are contributing to rumors that the Bailey Cove Star Market location is operating on […]

A group of Alabama airmen will spend another football season in Afghanistan. And they’ve told our news partners at AL.com they would like to do so in true crimson and white and orange and blue fashion. The Alabama Air Guard 187th Fighter Wing are requesting Alabama and Auburn gear including hats, shirts, etc. They are based at Montgomery Regional Airport, and have been deployed since March. The wing’s F-16CFighting Falcon aircraft – known as the “Red Tails” – provide armed […]

It won’t be long until students go back to class. And that means teachers are gearing up to prepare their classroom. Luckily, many local teachers are getting a helping hand. Tuesday, teachers stopped by the Free2Teach store. The store is at 300 9th Avenue in Huntsville. Free2Teach is a program designed to help teachers get the supplies they need to start school at no cost. A Monrovia Middle School teacher, Verra Williams said, “…I think it’s absolutely phenomenal… it’s not […]